Park), a public space in the Buenos Aires area of Costanera Norte, whose purpose it is to remember the genocide perpetrated during the military dictatorship that governed Argentina during the second half of the nineteen-seventies. The rest of the sculptures were selected in an international competition, which received projects from Marie Orenzans, Nuno Ramos, Claudia Fontes, Dennis Oppenheim, el Grupo de Arte Callejero, Germán Botero, to name but a few. Distéfano created a model in bronze entitled Received Grace, about which he says:

“The cruelty and emotional wrench of the dark years of dictatorship still haunt our memory. The bodies thrown into the river signal that those were times which full of hope and, also, of defeat.

Received Grace shows the hypocrisy and pathetic attitude of those who condoned the conduct of the murderers, turning into their accomplices.”

On 15 October and 6 November, the Centro de Arte Moderno de Quilmes, Buenos Aires, organises a one-man exhibition of his drawings, during which Distéfano gives a talk.

With his work Smoke, he takes part in the large exhibition Siglo XX. Arte y Cultura (XX Century. Art and Culture), at the Centro Cultural Recoleta, between December 1999 and March 2000.